Transactional People

 Holy Moly! Our outside temp is 47 (F) and we have... intermittent showers.  That's right, our skies are overcast and with only 8 days left in November, our temps are warm.  Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with not having to pay for heating my house, and to be honest, I don't give a rat's ass if the revenue for my natural gas company shrinks.  They should never have let greed get the better of them.  Next week, our highs are only predicted to be in the mid 40s (F) during the day, but again, that's fine with me.  It's a lot better than highs in the low 30s (F).

As Wednesdays go, yesterday wasn't bad.  I did drive over to my local BJ's wholesaler to make a purchase.  Razor blades.  And what a deal they were!.  However, as always when I'm wandering up and down the aisles, I'm price comparing.  Yoghurt is cheaper at my local Giant Supermarket.  And the sliced cheese I buy?  Kraft slices are just a tad bit more expensive than the name brand my Giant sells.  So, will it be Kraft or the generic brand?  I'll go with the cheaper generic brand.  Too many people believe that a name brand means better quality.  Nahhh.  Remember, sliced cheese is a processed food that is mass produced.  In the time it's taking me to write this sentence probably thirty or forty thousand slices have been wrapped and packed.  And let's be realistic, Kraft is not making their slices more nutritious.  All they're doing is selling a name.

And some of you might want to ask yourselves what does the picture of Isabella Rossellini on the cover of the September, 1983 copy of Vogue have to do with The Body in 4:$ Time.

So, I'm thinking of writing a poem and everyday posting a picture of on Instagram with a line from that poem.  This might be the first.

Beneath half a tree of leaves

Of course, just about everybody is talking about the love fest Orangie had with Mamdani.  People were expecting him to treat the new mayor of New York City the same way he treated Zelensky, and instead he treated him the same way he treated Putin.  Did the visit by the Saudi shah have something to do with Orangie's generosity?  Another couple of million just to be super nice?  Remember, the Orange Anus is transactional.  If he's being nice, he's getting something in return.

And if you're not talking about the Mamdani visit, you're probably talking about Margorie Taylor Greene announcing her quittage from Congress.  So many people want to know why.  She was super popular among the cultists up until about a month ago.  Then she jumped on the Epstein Train and began demanding Orangie release the files.  Believe me, she has not changed her stripes.  She is the embodiment of ulterior motives.  Like Orangie, she is a transactional preson.

Price Increase in aisle 1... 2... 3.......

 Good Morning World!

On this sunny Friday morning, the outside temp is sitting a comfy 64 (F).  The forecast for today is: mostly sunny and our chance of precipitation is 1%, now, that's pretty damn low.  We all know what that means, don't we?  My first load of laundry is in the washer.  The drying rack awaits.

Yesterday was pretty doggone good.  I vacuumed up all the Howie hair upstairs, and there is a lot.  Got lots of words written.  A fairly decent upper body workout was done, 239 calories were burned off.  Enough pulled pork was cooked to last for the next few days.  And I did 20 minutes on walking pad.  I like it.  It is really a mini-treadmill, except it folds up.  It will stay down in the writing room.  Yesterday I set it up in front of the desk, on the area rug.  That I didn't like, so I'm going to relocate it behind the desk onto the hardwood floor.

A BJ's Wholesale Club opened up about half a mile from where I work.  It's one of those membership clubs that sell discounted products.  Right now a promotion 1 years membership cost $15 and I'm thinking of joining, what with the cost of everything going up.  My neighborhood Giant supermarket offers points for every dollar you spend, so $100 = .10 off a gallon of gas.  However, they also offer promotional items where, for example, if you buy a 4 ounce bottle of Pom you get 40 points. There have been times when I've gotten up to a $1.00 off the price of a gallon of gasoline.  That's nice.  With food prices set to go through the roof, the points might be better than the discount card... that is unless my neighborhood Giant decides to change the way their point system works.  The higher prices would let you rack up the points faster.  

And prices are going up.  I took this picture on Wednesday, the day the tariffs went into effect.  The new "low" prices are now higher than the old "high" prices.  Every aisle is filled with these price mark-ups.

And, speaking of the Orange Anus, did everyone get a chance to see him announce how the job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics were wrong?  He used a chart with a graph pointing upwards and said the numbers were great.  Oh, and he said that they used numbers that hadn't been available before.  Social media went wild since apparently someone gave him access to a large piece of poster board and a sharpie.

And finally, evidently Kristi Noem, aka Ice Barbie has a real cranky hair up her butt because of how she was physically portrayed on South Park.  She's not complaining that in the episode she shot a puppy every 8 or 9 seconds, or about how ICE brutally kidnaps people, or about her violent recruitment video.  In fact, she's saying they ignore those terrible things about her... they didn't.  Nope, ICE Barbie's upset because after all of facial work she's had done, hair extensions, and cheek implants, they made fun of how she looks.  And the Orange Anus put this loser in charge of Homeland Security.